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So I bought a new kenlowe fan for my converted disco tdi. Not having the thermostat and not wanting to invest a full £40 for the xfan switch I thought I'd try making my own. Almost there.... Auto mode switches on fan at whatever temperature I program in. Manual on / off override Rotary...

I see that the government has reintroduced the rolling tax exempt status.... But now rather than 25 years it is 40 years..... So mine ought to be exempt in a little over 10 years. What is the likelihood that this rolling exemption will actually keep on rolling beyond the next change of govt?

What does the single levered mech actually do? On mine I have a melted electrical terminal and a botched spring contact. I cant work out why there is a notch for the spring halfway through the lever's travel nor why there is a ball notchy thing making the lever click into three positions...

So I'm nearing completion of my build. I bought some 2012 new take off matt arches from eBay for £25.... But can I find matching rears anywhere? No. Dealerships tell me matt arches for utility type vehicles are NLA. All they now offer are primed arches or gloss black arches. Aftermarket...

These were bought from ebay for about £30 a few years back and have been sat in the loft since. Having spent a couple of weeks with an MGF (selling it for my mum) I found the seats particulatly good: they've got thin bases they've got good bolsters but not bucket like they've got simple...

Just gone to torque up the engine mounts and the nut has full on stripped the thread. Now unless i'm reading the haynes wrong it should be 85nm which sounds like shed loads to me. Its just an m10 thread.... Can anyone confirm the torque? Ta. EDIT. First time I've been caught out by...

Its a bit warped and I'm going to be side mounting it so thought I'd have a look at what could be done. I drilled out the rivets and popped off the galvanised inner panel. The aluminium parts all then straightened up nicely and look surprisingly good. The galv panel however has some proper...

I've got a lovely set of compomotive alloys which were one of the selling features of the knackered landie I bought. Since putting disco axles on front and rear the alloys no longer self centre on the hubs (designed for the old style drum axles) and so need to be lifted into position & held...

Just to follow on from the other 'bad britpart' thread.... Needed to rebuild some calipers so bought parts from Mansfield 4x4. They'd sold me Allmakes seal set last time and they were an excellent fit. Britpart came this time so I thought I'd see how they went. Appalling. Totally oversized...

Bought myself a lovely looking disco for donoring to my 90 project. It has apparently been using a bit of oil but I don't know how much as its not been used much of late. It throws out a bit of smoke out the exhaust and when revved hard we have quite a bit of black smoke. Out of the filler...

I wanted to do something new that no-one had ever done bofore. So I'm taking an engine form a discovery and fitting it to my n/a defender. However - whats coming out is a Nissan 2500 engine. Meaning I don't have any suitable mount brackets. And they're not the sort of thing which crop up on...

In order to get on with disco conversion I need to get defender out of garage. But sadly defender now has no engine & garage/drive is on a (6 degree ish) downward slope. Therefore feeling the need for some form of winch to lower defender out and pull tdi engine (on crane) up into garage. Then...

The brackets on mine aren't too bad but the mounting holes are getting worn in an odd shape. Have made up some plates to weld on but need to know what size to drill the hole. The shock spigot is about 12mm but I'd guess the hole would need to be bigger to allow for articulation....... any...

Just landed myself a little project. Its an 85 ninety which looked fair on the surface. Just below the surface though its a different matter. But, seeing as it was cheap, a new chassis is out of the question financially. But it does need: Bulkhead top repairs Bulkhead bottom bracket...